Joe Paterno Quotes

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.

Nothing ever goes as planned in China.

Crises there will continue to be ... Threats of new kinds will always appear.

This business can be so fickle, and a lot of times, hard work isn't enough.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its greatest danger.